The Natural Resources Police recovered the body shortly after 9 a.m. Friday and turned it over to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, said Candy Thomson, a spokeswoman for the NRP. An abandoned car had earlier been spotted on the bridge, she said.

First Sgt. Kevin Ayd, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, had no further information.

A federal jury Wednesday convicted Cornell Louis Robinson, 44, of Washington, D.C., on charges related to the armed carjacking of an Annapolis couple who were about to enter their vehicle to go to the hospital because the woman was in labor.